“Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!” — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it. — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Do something good, no one sees it...Do something embarrassing, everyone sees it... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Society teaches boys not to cry or show their feelings, then act surprised when some men act heartless. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It's funny how when I'm loud, people tell me to be quiet. But when I'm quiet, people ask me what's wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's one of the ironies of investing. The rich can afford to take risks, but they don't need to. The poor need… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To me you're like a tree I know you'll only stay temporarily..you give me fruit & strengthen me..but I know in time… — Joanne Lobedica Copy Share Image
“I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.” — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
I must live in a fantasy world for thinking that when two people marry each other they are emotionally close. I guess… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The formerly incarcerated - returning citizens - often face a cruel irony in America. Having paid their debt to society, too many… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
Caricatures are an important part of our culture of debate. They should defuse political spats through humor and irony. It is about… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
“Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?' 'For fun?' 'Fun!' He… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The further humans move from hunters to horticulturists to agriculturists to urbanisation to industrialists, the further the sacred recedes, first to heaven,… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
I can't deny the impact of, obviously, becoming a father and having my son come into this world, and even becoming a… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that… — Diana Rowland Copy Share Image
“As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Nothing more aggravating than a seamless, unremitting irony which leaves you no time to breathe and still less to think; which instead… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical… — Paige Bradley Copy Share Image
It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image